Imperial Shipment

Amarr Empire

As many other people I don't like the cynabal changes - makes the Vaga even better in comparison and kills even more of its tank by the PG nerf.

Ashimmu gets a nice buff, love the phantasm bonus for the ab and the slot changes.

Gila. Get rid of the racial missile boni - not really in line with the usual boni for this faction - give it a light drone bonus instead. I like the medium drone layout but it's too focused on it and makes it way too predictable. It would be fun to have a light/medium drone beast opposed to the heavy/sentry ishtar.

The Sengoku Legacy

Hang on, you say sig size there. Checking EFT, Do medium drones really have the same sig size as large drones? Or is my EFT broken :sThat's mad.

Not able to really comment on the orbit velocities. I've always found them pretty tough to nail quick enough when orbiting you firing as they are currently, let alone with a boost. Don't they struggle to track at the speed they orbit at normally? I'm rusty with drones! :p

there sig is 50 ... a big frigate basically .. despite it being a fraction of the size of one ... they orbit like a frig with no prop on and tracks like medium guns do..

T3's need to be versatile so no rigs are necessary ... they should not have OP dps and tank

Doomheim

Hey remember when you guys introduced tier 3 BCs and no one ever saw Cynabals again? Then all those t1 cruiser buffs, navy cruiser buffs, and HAC buffs? Good thing the Cynabal's getting a nerf, it's such a terrifying and viable ship currently (this is sarcasm)

Both heavy and medium drones are getting speed buff at same time. Read Dev Blog about this.

Speaking of EHP of Ogre with 500% bonus ... ain't going down easily. Especially that it will be faster at same time. And on top of that rattle does more damage from missiles than ever.

They'll be 20% faster. Whoop-de-doo. That's not really sufficient to get them to move fast enough to get back into my hold before they die.

And the EHP will be enough for them to last 50% of the way back into my drone bay instead of 10%...yay...

it is if you're brawling. with drag and drop drones, if you try and shoot the drones on a droneship up close, you're pretty much throwing the fight.

Well said ... funny is that everyone expects every single drone boat to be sniping with drones. Which is actually completly against gallente mindset. You are expected to burn to your opponent drop drones and melt him with guns/launchers/drones. Sniping with sentries is just one possibility. Once you get your target scrammed/webbed (or maybe even dual webbed) you can apply damage from bigger drones.

I'm happy that we can see some use for other drones other than small and sentries. Keep good work CCP on this topic.

Would it really break the game to give missile ships a straight damage bonus instead of just 1 (most often kinetic)? Isn't choosing your damage type supposed to be one of the few advantages of missiles?

Would it really break the game to give missile ships a straight damage bonus instead of just 1 (most often kinetic)? Isn't choosing your damage type supposed to be one of the few advantages of missiles?